garden boxing
I take a few months off blogging and, woops! There goes all the news and activities piling up. I upended my vegetable garden. Well, not literally, I guess. When we moved into the house I was resolute on the idea of devoting a chunk of the yard to a vegetable…
Monday Zen: Pulling Weeds
In a previous post I mentioned that my vegetable garden has been sprouting through the spring in a particular state of ambiguity. As all the little seeds I deliberately planted in May began to germinate and grow, so did the variety of weeds and volunteer plants begin to emerge from…
May Long Weekend Gardeners
It’s a sunshiny Flourishing Friday and on this upcoming Monday Canadians across the country will be celebrating our role in the Commonwealth and thinking fondly of dear Queen Victoria’s Birthday for Victoria Day, a Canadian statutory holiday celebrated on the Monday preceding May 25 in every province and territory, and…
Garden Irrigation Project, Part One
It’s a Flourishing Friday and for the next few months I’m going to use these end-of-the-workweek-days to post something about my efforts to be a productive vegetable gardener. Y’know… vegetables that I can perhaps later cook into a delicious cast iron grilled meal. Yet, it’s still deep in the cool…